district 7680 assembly dictionary project

THE DICTIONARY

PROJECT

Rotary Club of Charlotte John Tabor President Elect Carol Jordan Literacy Chair

District 7680 Mid-Year Assembly

Literacy

Literacy

2 / 3 of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of the 4th grade will end up in jail or on welfare.

The 4th grade is the watershed year. We can predict that if a child is not reading proficiently in the 4th grade, he or she will have approximately a 78% chance of not catching up.

Literacy One child in four grows up not knowing how to read. 43% of adults at Level 1 literacy skills live in poverty

compared to only 4% of those at Level 5 3 out of 4 food stamp recipients perform in the lowest 2

literacy levels 90% of welfare recipients are high school dropouts 16 to 19 year old girls at the poverty level and below, with

below average skills, are 6 times more likely to have out-of-wedlock children than their reading counterparts.

Literacy Disadvantaged students in the first grade have a

vocabulary that is approximately half that of an advantaged student (2,900 and 5,800 respectively)

Over one million children drop out of school each year, costing the nation over $240 billion in lost earnings, forgone tax revenues, and expenditures for social services

About 3 in 5 of America's prison inmates are illiterate.

Literacy There are almost 500,000 words in our English

Language - (the largest language on earth) – but 1/3 of all our writing is made up of only twenty-two words.

In 1999, only 53 percent of children aged 3 to 5 were read to daily by a family member, and there is a direct correlation to poverty levels.

When the State of Arizona projects how many prison beds it will need, it factors in the number of kids who read well in fourth grade.

Spelling’s Important

Spelling’s Important

THE DICTIONARY

PROJECT

WHY Communication Education Career and Personal Growth Self-Confidence

One of Rotary’s Six Areas of Focus

Basic Education and Literacy

Peace and Conflict Prevention / Resolution

Disease Prevention and Treatment

Water and Sanitation

Maternal and Child Health

Basic Education and Literacy

Economic and Community Development

History

1992 Annie Plummer of Savannah, GA

1995 Bonnie Beeferman of Hilton Head, SC

1995 Mary French of Charleston, SC

To Date 18,255,644 Dictionaries

Participants Civic Clubs

Participants Civic Clubs Non-Profits

Participants Civic Clubs Non-Profits Educational

Participants Civic Clubs Non-Profits Educational Foundations Government Businesses Individuals

Participants

Civic Clubs 90 7,218 Non-Profits 42 305 Educational 25 655 Foundations 39 470 Government 6 137 Businesses 39 270 Individuals 65

Clubs or Organizations Groups

Participants – Civic Clubs

Elks 1,010 Grange 843 Kiwanis 643 Lions 340 Republican Women 303 ROTARY Clubs 3,195 ROTARY Districts 95

Clubs or Groups

Process Organize

Determine Need / Communicate with Schools Order

Dictionaries Prepare

and Insert Name Plates Distribute

and Present to the Schools PR

Document and Publicize

Process

Organize Determine Need Communicate with Schools Determine Costs Determine Schedule

Website www.dictionaryproject.org

Website www.dictionaryproject.org

Website www.dictionaryproject.org

Website www.dictionaryproject.org

Process

Organize Determine Need / Communicate with Schools

Order Dictionaries Cost about $1.75 and up

www.dictionaryproject.org

Process

Organize Order Prepare

Insert Name Plates Sticker Party

Name Plates

Name Plates

Name Plates

Process

Organize Order Prepare Distribute

Present to the Schools (10-15 minutes) Make it a lesson Make it a big deal Play a game

Process

Organize Order Prepare Distribute PR

Take Photos (get permission) Write Media Release to local Media (w/ photos) Write Article for PTAs (w/ photos) Put in your Newsletter and on District website

PR

Note: no children faces are shown . . .

Gratitude

Gratitude

Gratitude

Think Outside the Box

Collaboration

District 7680

Collaboration

Every 3rd grader in Ashe County received their very own dictionary

Collaboration

Rotary Club of Charlotte & Rotary Club of

The Jefferson's

Bought the Dictionaries

Assembled the Name Plates

Delivered and presented the Dictionaries

Q&A

THE DICTIONARY

PROJECT

Rotary Club of Charlotte John Tabor President Elect Carol Jordan Literacy Chair

District 7680 Mid-Year Assembly